Quotes About Leadership

Cicero's orator is a man built to heroic proportions. He must be a man of eloquentia, with the speaking skills necessary to move great crowds. He must be a patriot whose profound love of country allows him to identify with his audience, to feel what they feel and understand their needs and desires. And he must be a man who understands the true nature of good and evil. As with Aristotle, this last is the most important quality for a great statesman and orator.

Like the Sun King, all of them turned their nation's printing presses and church pulpits into royalist propaganda machines. What was then "the mainstream media" routinely pointed to the monarch as an essential link in the Great Chain of Being, the center of a divinely preordained and fixed order. A king was more than just a political leader. Heaven had placed him on the throne not only to be obeyed, but to be loved and revered.

Invincibility is in oneself, vulnerability is in the opponent. —SUN TZU, THE ART OF WAR

Reid once defined common sense as "that degree of judgment which is common to men with whom we can converse and transact business." Where no one was clearly in charge, common sense would have to reign. It was the moral of modern democracy, as the exponents of the Scottish school had conceived it, and as Scots in America, at least, had brought it into being.

The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagraha campaign in South Africa.

I learned when you shout at someone," he once said, "you make him afraid. And when he's afraid, he won't tell you his troubles"—or tell a manager the truth about what on the assembly line wasn't working, or what had gone wrong. An

The answer to the runaway Presidency is not the messenger-boy Presidency. The American democracy must discover a middle ground between making the President a czar and making him a puppet.

Above all he [John F. Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude

Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Antony.

Mr. Charnock said: Men that are great in the world are quick in passion, and are not so ready to forgive an injury, or bear with an offender, as one of a meaner rank. It is a want of power over that man's self that makes him do unbecoming things upon a provocation. A prince that can bridle his passions is a king over himself as well as over his subjects. God is slow to anger because great in power. He has no less power over Himself than over His creatures.

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Før avreisen advarte obersten alle mot å forsøke å begå selvmord mens han var borte. Og ingen måtte dra til Nordkapp på egen hånd. Obersten sa at han begynte å få nok av selvtektstendensene i gruppa.

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

No hay mujeres malas —dijo de pronto el Piloto—. Igual que no hay barcos malos... Son los hombres a bordo quienes los hacen de una manera o de otra.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores.

Cuando un papa, Pío XII en este caso, llama a un país nación elegida por Dios, baluarte inexpugnable de la fe católica, está claro que quien gobierna ese país va a estar un rato largo gobernándolo.

Oderint dum metuant. Que me odien, pero que me teman.

En materia de seguridad, confiaba más en convencer que en dar órdenes.

confiar a trece millones de indios analfabetos la elección de un presidente es como pedir a una clase de escolares que elijan a su profesor.